School & Community Gardens
ACAT collaborates with schools and other groups to promote organic gardening in public spaces. School and community gardens are ideal places to engage people in learning to grow their own healthy food and to demonstrate best non-toxic practices.
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| Harvesting the peace garden at Stellar Secondary School. |
Organic Peace Garden, Steller Secondary School
ACAT works with students at Anchorage’s Steller Secondary School to plant and maintain an organic garden on school grounds. We offer science and gardening workshops and mentor students in organic methods.
Participating students learn about the effects of pesticides on people, fish and wildlife and how they can grow healthy, organic food without the use of harmful pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.
Please contact us to discuss how you can start an organic demonstration garden at your school. We can help!
If you are interested in knowing about ways that students may be exposed to harmful chemicals at school, please visit our Schools Page. Visit our State Legislation Page to learn more about how ACAT is working to prevent harmful chemical exposures at Alaska’s public schools.
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| Volunteers plant starts at our organic garden plots at Anchorage’s “C” Street Community Gardens. |
Organic Garden at “C” Street Community Gardens
ACAT partners with the Alaska Center for the Environment, Alaska Women’s Environmental Network, and the Alaska Cooperative Extension Service to offer organic gardening workshops and to cultivate two 10’ x 20’ demonstration plots at the “C” Street Community Gardens in Anchorage. We donate a portion of the harvest to the Food Bank of Alaska. Volunteers meet 5:30 – 7:00 pm on Wednesdays at the garden. For more information or to get involved, please contact us!
